Union alarm at Army plan to tackle airport strikes
: "I would say in a nation where there is a history of the Army being brought in, it would be completely wrong for anyone to think that the way to solve an industrial dispute is to ask our armed forces to effectively come in and strike break".then Home Secretary Winston Churchill to send in troops to the Rhondda town of Tonypandy"That's not the way you solve these problems, you solve it around the negotiating table," said Mr Serwotka.
The dispute is over pay, and the union says the action will escalate if the UK government does not enter talks. "If they're using the Army in our airports and to drive our ambulances, what's next? Will the Army be driving trains and teaching and standing in wards? Of course they can't."Mark Serwotka of PCS says the government needs to be looking at the wider problem, rather than quick fixes such as drafting in the army
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